On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 15:44:29 -0700 Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > However, strictly speaking,(2) may break the standard workflow of > generating patches with format-patch and feeding the result to > send-email, as format-patch does not do /^From / munging (and it > shouldn't). The issue is mostly theoretical --- it only matters if > your commit log has a line that begins with ">From ", and people who > have worked with e-mail for any nontrivial period have already > learned to reword their sentences to avoid lines that begin with > "From " (or ">From ", for that matter) anyway. Munging happens only when doing --export. If you don't supply that option, it won't affect anything, so there is no breakage. BTW, git-format-patch already produces output somewhat compatible with mbox, as it adds a From_ line. Eduard -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
